After removing Liberty Place monument, Mitch Landrieu: Others coming down...

Rest of the headline...'sooner rather than later'. Mayor Mitch Landrieu held a brief news conference Monday morning on the overnight removal of the Liberty Place monument.

He insisted that security concerns justified taking the obelisk down in the early morning hours and without warning, rather than scheduling any kind of public ceremony.

And he said the other three monuments scheduled for removal would be taken down in the same manner, adding only that it would happen "sooner rather than later."

The mayor chose to speak in front of a monument to fallen police officers in front of New Orleans Police Department headquarters. He pointed out that the Liberty Place statue was put up in the first place to honor an uprising that killed members of the city's integrated police force during the Reconstruction era.

Landrieu called the Liberty Place obelisk an "affront" both to the United States and "the humanity of millions of Americans."

Taking a page from the Nazi Party playbook and its totalitarian quest of cultural cleansing, today the Democrat Socialist Party in New Orleans is removing four Confederate monuments from public view.

In this updated version from the 1930’s, American blacks residing on the Democrat Socialist plantation represent the new German victims, and the defenders of historical facts and Southern Heritage represent the new Jews.

In order to sanitize and erase cultural history to satisfy its “victims,” simply expropriate all of the structures, imagery and factual references connected to it. Liberal academic “historians” have already accomplished the latter.

The real problem is that most people are either too stupid or too illiterate to recognize what’s going on right under their noses. The South remains anathema to the Democrat Socialist Party, and they’re still trying to “Reconstruct” us.

Oh, and be sure to thank the “Educrats,” who are committed to teaching our children what they ideologically want them to believe, rather than what they factually need to know.

quote-Most history is an “affront” to someone as the Holly Bible is an affront to non-believers.

You mention the bible- The Scriptures have something to say about erecting ‘pillars’.
This nation has a big obelisk, in its capitol, that if God has His way, will fall.

watching a place like New Orleans, that has a history of voodoo, black magic and curses, tear down a ‘pillar’, is quite a prophetic statement.

if, or maybe ‘when’ the Washington Monument comes down some day, willingly or unwillingly, will people weep or rejoice?
depends on if they’ve read their bibles.

“Because the other three memorials they’re removing include a statue of Robert E. Lee, a statue of Jefferson Davis and a statue of P.G.T. Beauregard. Can’t you read?”

I think we can agree that you listed three (3) Confederate monuments, but you earlier stated that four (4) Confederate monuments were being removed.

Now, which is the the fourth (4th) Confederate monument being removed?

Or do you believe that the monument at Liberty Place is a Confederate monument?

To include battlefield monuments on the actual battlefields?

I’m a Republican too and where I grew up every little town square and park has a monument to Union soldiers, leaders and units.

Memorial Day in my youth included a parade, ending at the old cemetery where the mayor made a speech and townspeople decorated the graves of the Civil War and Revolutionary War veterans buried there.

Every one took part in the parade; Girl, Cub and Boy Scouts, the American Legion and VFW.

Tuck Harris, the local Ford dealership owner provided convertibles for the WWI and Spanish American War vets, all the churches and service clubs, Moose, the Knights of Columbus, Kiwanis, Eastern Star, Shriners and Masons marched too. After the solemnities were concluded it was time for cook outs and fire works.

We were and are rightfully proud of our veterans; from our town of less than 5,000 several batteries of artillery as well as companies of infantry and cavalry, parts of 2 companies of the 2nd US Sharpshooters were raised locally, one of them fired from behind the stone wall between the Round Tops into the flank of Law’s Brigade as Chamberlain’s 20the Maine made their famous charge.

The America I grew up in would think your willingness to dishonor the memory of the sacrifices of brave men despicable.

Have you read Chamberlain’s description of the Confederate soldier as he saw them at the surrender of their arms and battle flags at Appomattox?

“On they come with the old swinging route step and swaying battle flags. Before us in proud humiliation stood the embodiment of manhood. Thin, worn and famished, but erect and with eyes looking level into ours. Waking memories that bound us together as no other bond.

Was not such manhood to be welcomed back into the Union so tested and assured? On our part not a sound of trumpet more nor roll of drum, not a cheer, nor word, nor whisper of vain glorying, nor motion of man. But an awed stillness rather and breathholding, as if it were the passing of the dead.”

~ Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, describing the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia.

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